What's new

• For new customers, you can setup either daily or weekly budgets for both wages and hours in the new Budget setting component.

• For existing customers, you can switch budgets between Daily and Weekly easily by clicking "Budget settings".

• Better plan your schedules by comparing Budget vs. Scheduled in stats panel. You can hover-over the weekly or daily summary to compare your scheduled hours/wages with budgets .

Why

We understand different business have different ways for setting up the budgets. By supporting business to set up their budget in either weekly or daily, it could help you to schedule your employee more efficiently.

How to use it

Click here to read more about how to use more in Business Insights.

Got feedback to share? Go to Deputy > Help > Give us feedback or book a 30 mins meeting with us.

What's new

• Kounta logos updated - All Kounta logos have been updated to Lightspeed logos
• Kounta names updated - All Kounta references have been updated to Lightspeed Kounta

Why

We wanted to ensure our customers aren't getting confused due to the Lightspeed's acquisition and rebranding of Kounta 

Got feedback to share? Go to Deputy > Help > Give us feedback

What's new

• As a Manager, you can now View and Approve Open Shift requiring approval on Deputy Mobile App
• You can approve directly from the app dashboard or scheduling screen
• Easily sort and approve employees that were first to request, cost or by alphabetical order
• Available now on both iOS and Android Deputy app

How to approve shifts on mobile

If you are willing to join our exclusive BETA program for this upcoming feature, please click here to register your interest.

What's new

• Non-worked type area settings - Managers now can setup a non-worked type area where any shift happened there will not be calculated into the ordinary total time, plus NO stress profile or overtime pay rate will be triggered neither.  

• Sleepover shift management - Managers can also setup sleepover allowance via SCHADS awards by marking particular sets of area who contains the specified name to be Sleepover Area.  By doing so , you will be able to pay your employee's sleepover shift accurately by one click!

Why

Deputy wants to keep empowering our Healthcare / NDIS customers during COVID-19. We hope by supporting the non-worked type shift and sleepover shifts , it could help the Healthcare/NDIS customers to easily manage their scheduling and timesheets.

How to use it

Click here to read more about how to use it

Got feedback to share? Go to Deputy > Help > Give us feedback

How to get it

This feature is still in BETA & will roll out to all accounts over the coming weeks.

If you are interested in joining our exclusive BETA program for this, please register your interest by hitting 'Get me in'.

What's new

You can now choose how your employees sync their schedule with a calendar app.

Why

Some times we don't want to share everything! We're giving you the ability to choose who your employees can share their schedule with - more flexibility when it comes to security.

How to use it

Introducing a new business setting with three options

• allow anyone to with the calendar link to sync 
• require Deputy login to sync
• do not allow sync for anyone

Click here to read more about how to use it

Got feedback to share? Go to Deputy > Help > Give us feedback

What's new

You will now be able to attach files to your Locations in Deputy. This will help you provide additional context for your staff carrying out their shift.

1. Attach images & pdf documents 📄- Attach up to 5 files (images & pdfs) to each location. We have also increased the character limit of location notes to 5,000.

2. Attachment privacy 🔐- Location attachments can be visible to all staff or just managers.

3. View location notes & attachments on the go📱- Location notes & attachments can be viewed by staff while on shift on both our iOS and Android mobile apps.

Why

• Locations are central to how our customer use & setup Deputy. We are striving to help your staff have all the necessary information to do their best work.

How to use it

Update Location notes and upload attachments to Location via Deputy web and view on the web or mobile apps. Click here to read more about how to use it.

What's new

We keep improving the Business Insights to empower your data driven scheduling experiences even better. So here are what have been updated recently:

1. All location read-only Business Insights - managers are able to view your whole business metrics by selecting "All Location" in the location dropdown. This will help you to understand how my business performed by comparing budget vs. scheduled vs. actual to keep improving your scheduling in the future.
2. Salary cost are now included into the total of actual cost within Business Insights. The salary cost will be calculated based on your salary distribution settings by either "Scheduled Days", "Scheduled Hours" or "Days of the Week",  more details can be found here.
3. Leave cost are also now included into the total of actual/scheduled cost within Business Insights.  Any future leave cost will be included into Scheduled cost and any past approved leave cost will be included into actual cost.
4. Labor percentage calculation has been adjusted by involving Salary cost and Leave cost.
5. Bug fixes and other improvements 

Why

• Based on the feedback from our customers, we understand "All location" mode of Business Insights is quite helpful and critical for managers to check the whole business performance.
• Without salary cost and leave cost, the data shown in BI won't be accurate and we hope by adding both in can help you make better data driven decision for your future scheduling.

How to use it

It's available in Scheduling Model of Deputy WebApp,  Follow our help guide for more details on how to configure and rely on Business insights to manage data driven scheduling.

We are keen to hear your feedback, so if you have any questions regarding Business Insights or want to tell us what needs to be improved, simply submit your thoughts via Schedule --> Stats --> Give feedback, or book a 30 mins meeting with us.

What's new

We've introduced a simple way to get your team onto Deputy - the new Invite link feature allows managers to share a unique link with your team, enabling them to create their own profiles instead of needing to enter them yourself!

It's as simple as:

1. Share 🔗  - share your unique link with your team into the social or messaging apps you already use
2. Create📱 - staff follow the link to create their account and a request is sent for your approval
3. Approve ✅  - view and approve pending requests on Deputy to add your team and start scheduling!

Why

• We found that most managers already have their team on their phone, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Groups or iMessage... but there was never an easy way to get them into Deputy. 💬
• And sometimes you don’t always have their email address on hand and yet we ask you for it in order to invite them to Deputy. 🙅🏻‍♀️

How to use it

It's available on our Deputy mobile apps📱 as well as on our website💻. Click here to read more about how to use it.

What's new

• Connect your Shopify store - either install the Deputy app from the Shopify app store or find Shopify in your Deputy account under Integrations
• Import online & POS orders  - seamlessly import all these orders into Deputy
• Map channels to areas of work in Deputy - allocate all online orders to where you pick and pack your orders while still keeping your point-of-sale orders allocated to your physical retail areas

Why

Retail business owners often plan their workforce based on historic or projected demand. Importing Shopify orders from both online and brick and mortar channels allows customers to make smarter decisions on how they schedule their workforce. 

How to use it

Click here to read more about how to use the Shopify integration

Got feedback to share? Go to Deputy > Help > Give us feedback

Deputy customers that are on our Enterprise product love our Importer Wizard which gives them the ability to bulk upload data such as Employees, Areas, Schedules, Sales Data.

Schedule Importer supports Rest Breaks

Schedule importer now supports uploading rest breaks that are duration-based. This will still be optional but now you can bulk upload schedules with rest breaks 😃

Read more here.